Couach is a French shipyard founded in 1897 by Albert Couach at Arcachon, who built some of the first marine engines used in the bay; the family later moved production to a dedicated yard in Gujan-Mestras, on the Bassin d'Arcachon near Bordeaux. Nepteam Holding, a group of local investors, acquired the company in 2011. The yard builds composite motor yachts from fibreglass, carbon and Kevlar, spanning two ranges: the 23–26 metre Discover series and the 42–52 metre Green Power series, alongside defence and patrol vessels built in the same facility. Its largest yacht to date, the 50-metre Pellegrina delivered in 2012, was Couach's first vessel to break the 50-metre mark.
Couach's defining technical break came in 1970, when Guy Couach built the world's first yacht in Aramat, a Kevlar-based composite the yard adopted across its range from that point on. The lineage runs to the 2012 delivery of the 50-metre La Pellegrina 1, Couach's first yacht past 50 metres, built in glass-Kevlar with carbon reinforcement and reported to cruise at 28 knots.
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